CJ 7300 - Professional Responsibility and Community Relations for Law Enforcement

3 cr

The founder of modern policing, Sir Robert Peel, delineated the concepts of ethical policing and policing by consent. In this course we will show how these two concepts are mutually reinforcing. The course focuses attention on the constituencies interest in police services, the goals that law enforcement agencies are expected to achieve , and the means to achieve goals. Ethical police behavior is considered at three levels (individual, agency, and society-wide) and the interaction of those three levels is observed in a case study. Examples of effective and ineffective community relations strategies are examined. The roles of police leadership is discussed.